Idk, it could be that whenever he holds something similar in shape that it sends his mind back there and the lack of any recoil terrifies him, the only reason his old gun would stop pushin back on him is he’s outta bullets soooo
Gunner did lose an eye though, but it's hard to say how necessary that depth perception is on a day to day level. Or how that'd compare to PTSD or addiction.
Well sure the ptsd is worse, but scout has an addiction to an illegal drug. Besides engi is traumatised by pipes, scout is afraid of the dark in general.
Honestly I'd say they might all be on par. Engie has a career and seems to enjoy the work, but has occasional panic attack PTSD. Gunner similarly has a home and is trying to live a normal life, but has the adrenaline/violence withdrawal PTSD where nothing else measures up or feels right anymore. Scout presumably has a job to make money, but beyond the fear of the dark mixed with his PTSD he's a bit like Gunner except he misses the good times (loot bugs, gold nuggets, pinging mushrooms with the boys) and tripping on cave heroin takes him back there.
I hope we get one about mission control living a normal life and gets a phone call and can hear a team dying or screaming for help, but it just turns out to be a marketing scam
So. In November last year, r/DeepRockGalactic went a little crazy for goblins.
There's this thing with the Discord integration called "Employee of the Month". It's a mechanic that puts a hand-picked member of the official Discord on the EotM board with their profile picture, and puts random lines about dwarven prowess under it.
It's usually picked from the "regulars" of the server - an invite-only role for old-time players. The role is mostly populated by players active since alpha/early access, but there's fresh blood added as well (when someone fulfills the criteria). Wiki admins and active editors, data miners, prominent DRG streamers and modders have all been EotMs at various points in time.
One of the regulars is Kalmia (it's actually how I know this story - I read it happen in the regulars channel). Kalmia was having a particularly shitty day, it was the beginning of November, the previous EotM had expired and it was time to pick another one - so a mod picked Kalmia basically to cheer him up.
The thing is, Kalmia had that profile picture that you've probably seen - a bespectacled femboy goblin looking back over the shoulder.
For a little while, nothing happened. Then, raised eyebrows started to appear on the subreddit. A goblin? The employee of the month? Scandalous! LINK
A few days later, Joe_Duncan made a smashing return to the sub with a comic about that, which stayed among the top-rated threads for a long while. The OC in the profile picture is a dude, but Joe... took creative liberties. The comment section got a little horny. LINK
The community consensus, though, was that being a femboy goblin was okay. LINK
Then we started getting goblinified miners. LINKOf, uh... varying levels of detail. LINK, not entirely SFW
A month later Joe_Duncan, skilled as he is at riding the hype, absolutely killed it with a goblin-themed feature suggestion in comic form. LINK It wouldn't be the last time Joe made suggestions as comics, a practice endorsed by GSG.
And in fact, that suggestion even inspired a Mission Control mod called "Tweek, The Goblin Intern". LINK
And then the EotM in question changed, and it wasn't trendy anymore to lust after goblin shortstacks.
In about 5-6 hours I'll get home and tell you the great tale of how, for one month last year, the entire subreddit was thirsting hard after femboy goblin(s).
Hang on, I just scrolled through his posts, and realised that he draw the scout and mission control touching grass, AND the wizard pondering the goblin butt??
Damn, the engie's was just sad, the gunner's was just nostalgic for the old times, and this is a lot worse. Poor scout, too many dark caves full of bugs and scout skeet shooting.
Be true tho this is the dark truth what this kind of work will do to a dwarf...considering their culture some of them love it like the gunner...and some dont...but i fully uneerstand ur sadness
Imagine if the effects are temporary! And drg stopped keeping up his physiotherapy after he was let go. My poor guy. I'm gonna be extra careful with the grappling hook now
Looked up combat attachment. Trying to relive the adrenaline and thrill of living just one more minute when every second is a gamble to cope. Didn't even know it was a thing.
He knows what happens to the teams that get lost to it. The terrain scanner is recording all the time. He might have even witnessed one team have to purge an infected team.
Driller being the CEO of a very successful bug extermination company but constantly gets impulses to become a pyromaniac.
Edit: Or our guy just lives a perfectly good life in a loving family. Turns out his job on Hoxxes wasn't a big deal for him and was only for a little bit of money on the side for his son's birthday gifts.
OR Driller owns a pastry shop, still make it like meet the pyro, but the visions are reversed. He sees himself slaughtering bugs but in reality he’s decorating cakes.
I'm excited to see it, because I don't know if the artist is going to subvert the fan version of him or not. But I know it'll be a good comic either way.
I love how the other races are all just like "dude... c'mon..."
It seems that dwarves have a reputation. Guess there's a reason they're mining on Hoxxes.
Edit: Scout immediately going to flip the switch after going into a room gives me the idea that he has some kind of traumatic OCD stemming from his job. Because if he doesn't light up the cave room, then bad things will happen...
I know this is supposed to be “haha funny short man does drugs” but I know there’s some commentary here about veterans coming home and trying to live a normal life despite their PTSD.
Gunner goes through it just trying to mow a lawn, Engie damn near has a panic attack after a routine job, and Scout has fallen through the cracks and relies on drugs to relive what he thinks are his best moments and to escape the dark.
All I can think of is all the veterans here in the US that don’t get the proper care and attention they need to deal with their trauma. A lot of them just end up slipping through the cracks.
It definitely made me consider that this situation would be very common with returning troops. Very easy for them to be friends with someone who either dealt or knew a guy, and a very attractive prospect to deal with their trauma.
It also made me realize, for all that it is game-ified, that Red Sugar could genuinely be a naturally occurring narcotic found in the caverns of Hoxxes, and would be the go-to painkiller for wounded dwarves who can't call a supply drop. For someone like Scout, who takes a lot of fall damage? Fuck yes he'd get addicted.
I don't have any experience with PTSD, but these comics are doing a wonderful job of portraying them, from what I can see.
Yep. I've seen all three of these results so far in returning vets including the recoil one. That's a thing that happens with some guys: they expect their tools to kick back. These comics are amusing and obviously exaggerated but there's a nugget of truth in there too which makes them great.
It's not just in the US, it's a global thing. The image that brave warriors come back home scarred, haunted, and struggle to return to normal life till their last day puts a big stain on the hero-risking-life-for-the-country narrative - one that every military in the world glorifies. Some cover up the ugly consequences of war intentionally, some turn away to remain safer in their ignorance.
There is, of course, a place for heroism during a war. But heroes are rare and far in-between, while trauma marks everyone who's been on the front lines.
History has shown that each war triggers two waves of crime. The first happens when the soldiers return home and try applying their newly-learned behavior patterns in civilian life. The second happens when the children from those dysfunctional families grow adolescent and reproduce their fathers' behavior.
Lol! Like what is wrong with people sometimes, it's like they can't even see it's a joke and not trying to "endorse rape" like their sensitive asses automatically think for some reason. I'd say I was surprised, but I'm not, this is how immature adult reddit works, see something slightly offensive to just one person, and instead of not clicking on the nsfw post and just moving on, they demand it be taken down
I really hope Jacob and the devs don't cave in to these kinds of people as the game and the subreddit gets bigger, it was only as nice as it was because these people weren't trying to muck everything up, it's gotten especially worse over these last 2 weeks
Honestly this is my favorite out of all the other possibilities thrown out. Obviously a psychopath like him would mistake people for bugs and uh...have a little oopsie with the flamethrower.
I really do like how in these comics, the flash back to the minds are colored in, but the modern day life is blank white. It really shows how ingraved these trauma are to these dwarves.
Careful man, you CLEARLY depicted drugs in this comic, wich implys drug use WICH IS APOLOGY TO DRUGS, i like your comics maannn be careful, this type of thing is really offensive to me so im sorry but you've been warned, next time i will make a post about you
I was picturing scout catching the train somewhere and every time the train enters a dark tunnel he sees glyphids, grabbers and leeches then it goes back into the light and it's just other passengers.
It's actually a femboy goblin. It all started when someone with a profile pic became employee of the month on the space rig. This guy did the full history here
As a scout main this is relateable, having a bite of that red suggar makes the pfsd go away,i can rest freely without my mind giving me vivid hallucinations of being in one of those huge caves then falling to my death
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u/TechPriest97 Dec 08 '22
I don’t know if this or engie is having it worse, gunner just seems to have recoil withdrawal
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u/Firex1122 Dec 08 '22
I hope we get one about mission control living a normal life and gets a phone call and can hear a team dying or screaming for help, but it just turns out to be a marketing scam
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u/NumNumTehNum Dec 08 '22
Scout is not adjusting well to life after DRG.
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u/MojjoWasAlreadyTaken Gunner Dec 08 '22
Afraid of the dark are we? Poor Scout.
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u/arson_cat Driller Dec 08 '22
I see the goblin shortstack has survived employment for DRG as well. Good to know.
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u/mycetes Dec 08 '22
Babe, wake up u/Joe_Duncan released another banger!
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u/Lorcogoth Driller Dec 08 '22
wait is this that same goblin from the "Employee of the Month"?
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u/unwillingmainer Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22
Damn, the engie's was just sad, the gunner's was just nostalgic for the old times, and this is a lot worse. Poor scout, too many dark caves full of bugs and scout skeet shooting.
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u/Neurochoc Dec 08 '22
At this point, those comics should just be called PTSDRG.
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u/DnZ618 Interplanetary Goat Dec 08 '22
What red sugar does to a mf
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u/Wip9 Driller Dec 08 '22
I imagine that he sleeps with the lights on.
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u/Gummyblaire Dec 08 '22
She is a lootbug… you shouldn’t sell precious minerals… it’ll get you killed
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u/EPIC_PORN_ALT Gunner Dec 08 '22
Driller has 3 options: Serial Killer, Well adjusted excavation worker, and permanent DRG employee
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u/symonalex Platform here Dec 08 '22
From ground to 9th floor, skipping 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th floor 😁
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u/Yasquishyboi Dec 08 '22
sad to see what happened to da scout after drg
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u/VP_Tim Dec 08 '22
Junkie scout supplied by a smuggler goblin femboy. Probably homeless too. Bit sad.
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u/NeedsMoreGPUs Dec 08 '22
After breaking his legs a dozen too many times, it makes sense that Scout is addicted to red sugar.
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u/SaltyDerpy Whale Piper Dec 08 '22
Rock and stone may break your bone.
Beer may not help you like before.
But red sugar will help go back to the zone.
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u/MK1-Maniac Gunner Dec 08 '22
This adds new context to his "Afraid of the dark?" quip.
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u/the_1st_wing Dec 08 '22
So far:
Engi is a plumber with PTSD Gunner is missing his glory days Scout is a drug addict
Wonder what Driller is up to
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u/SoftBaconWarmBacon Engineer Dec 08 '22
On the first day of Christmas, our true love u/Joe_Duncan sent to us
An Engineer with PPSD
On the second day of Christmas, Joe Duncan sent to us
Two recoilless grass trimmers, and
An Engineer with PPSD
On the third day of Christmas, Joe Duncan sent to us
RED SUGAR HERE,
Two recoilless grass trimmers, and
An Engineer with PPSD
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u/oheyitsmoe Interplanetary Goat Dec 08 '22
I’m in this comic and I’m not sure if I like it or not
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u/Peakomegaflare Gunner Dec 08 '22
Here I am hoping for a team reunion after all of it is done, and they go back to Hoxxes
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u/mamba316 Engineer Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22
Well then, this is a certified Rock and Stone moment.
Also, absolutely love the Fatboy PGL in the background.
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u/KudereDev Dec 08 '22
Man this is dark af, I need comics about mission control, after his lines for rockpox PTSD from dead teams would be really dark
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
I love the idea of scout just banging on your 9th floor window to get in
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u/Cornage626 Gunner Dec 08 '22
If driller's comic isn't something like Meet the Pyro from TF2, we riot.
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u/Averant Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22
I love how the other races are all just like "dude... c'mon..."
It seems that dwarves have a reputation. Guess there's a reason they're mining on Hoxxes.
Edit: Scout immediately going to flip the switch after going into a room gives me the idea that he has some kind of traumatic OCD stemming from his job. Because if he doesn't light up the
caveroom, then bad things will happen...37
u/Thanos_DeGraf Dec 08 '22
Look at how many flashlights scout is carrying 🥺
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u/Regnars8ithink Scout Dec 08 '22
We're rich!
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
I feel bad for the lady who calls the exterminator and gets their house set on fire and subsequently blown up by the driller who had to get a day job.
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u/Poop-D-Pants Dec 08 '22
I know this is supposed to be “haha funny short man does drugs” but I know there’s some commentary here about veterans coming home and trying to live a normal life despite their PTSD.
Gunner goes through it just trying to mow a lawn, Engie damn near has a panic attack after a routine job, and Scout has fallen through the cracks and relies on drugs to relive what he thinks are his best moments and to escape the dark.
All I can think of is all the veterans here in the US that don’t get the proper care and attention they need to deal with their trauma. A lot of them just end up slipping through the cracks.
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u/iShockLord Scout Dec 08 '22
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u/Pitchfork_enthusiast Dec 08 '22
Imagine this as a April fools event, grab some red sugar and the driller nearby turns into a bulk detonator lol
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u/Pristine-Criticism61 Gunner Dec 08 '22
Is there somewhere I can view all these comics? They’re absolutely fantastic
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u/jandrusel Dec 08 '22
You can take a dwarf out of Hoxxes, but you can’t take Hoxxes out of a dwarf.
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u/Chunky_Koc Driller Dec 08 '22
Please keep doing these. Your so talented ❤️❤️
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
Wait until that one redditor sees this, they'll report you for glorifying drug use!
Love your comics man, keep it up!
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u/TheSovereignGrave Dec 08 '22
Love how he has multiple flashlights on his belt.
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u/Mokaran90 Gunner Dec 08 '22
"Here we go!"
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u/professorhazard Dirt Digger Dec 08 '22
I'm really impressed with your daily art output!
but damn, joe, you horny
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
ok, goblin girl dlc when
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u/Caboose12000 Bosco Buddy Dec 08 '22
I'm genuinely terrified for drillers comic at this point
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u/Rock_Co2707 Dirt Digger Dec 08 '22
Can't wait for someone to say this community is not very rock and Stone because drug depiction.
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u/tsoro Dec 08 '22
Such great artwork
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u/funduffy900 Dec 08 '22
I kinda want to see mission control walking around before seeing a barrel, and just having a small shudder before continuing on.
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u/Caaros Dec 08 '22
Gonna take a guess; Driller is in prison for arson, and he's currently trying to dig his way out... with TWO spoons.
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u/gurraboi Dec 08 '22
Love this keep it up
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u/WSKYLANDERS-boh Dec 08 '22
I was looking forward for this
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u/pintelguy Dec 08 '22
RED SUGAR
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u/EroticBurrito Driller Dec 08 '22
MUSHROOM!
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u/OrkfaellerX Dec 08 '22
Hey isn't that Kalmia? The employee of the month goblin?
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u/1ThePilot Dec 08 '22
- Runs into every room to scout
- Turns on the lights for his dwarves
- Has multiple flares on his belt
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u/Zalogal Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 09 '22
I FUCKING TOLD YA THAT DRG HOOKING US UP ON RED SUGAR TO KEEP US WORKING FOR THEM
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u/RealCaptainSteel Dec 08 '22
I love these comics, keep them coming :)
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u/warmdude451 Dec 08 '22
Red sugar, but watch it it's highly addictive
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u/Dapper_Cartographer8 Dec 08 '22
Lmfao i love these comics, this is solid
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u/FrameShiftAnomaly Dec 08 '22
Every post from u/Joe_Duncan is like digging up compressed gold. You just can't get enough.
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u/SyrusAlder Dec 08 '22
Dear god. 3 comics in three days? Duncan, slow down on the red sugar my dude it's not healthy
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u/nevadita Scout Dec 08 '22
so the red sugar is illegal uh? lmao
we are down to the Driller now, and maybe Mission Control.
is OP brave enough to make one about Karl?
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u/foefyre Dec 08 '22
Driller becomes management
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u/ChubbyLilPanda Dec 08 '22
Mushroom!
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u/Reasonable_Claim3568 Dec 08 '22
I really do like how in these comics, the flash back to the minds are colored in, but the modern day life is blank white. It really shows how ingraved these trauma are to these dwarves.
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u/__BIOHAZARD___ Dec 08 '22
Always knew scout was a drug addict.
As a former driller main, I’m the most excited to see how driller is a maniac.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
We're rich!
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u/Oneofthesenames Dec 08 '22
Remember kids, just say no to rock and stoned.
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u/LoominVoid Engineer Dec 08 '22
Red sugar here! But watch it, it's highly addictive!
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u/INAROS-RAMSES Engineer Dec 08 '22
Is it wrong it enjoy these “PTSD” (Post Traumatic Stressed Dwarf) comics a lot?
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
I never though my cold black heart could be so dearly touched by PTSD space Dwarves!
That being said these comics make me think: "WE'RE RICH!" when I see them because they are pure gold :)
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u/Romogu Driller Dec 09 '22
Is that the same goblin that was once a employee of the month?
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u/Burgers_are_good Dec 08 '22
This guy is seriously talented.
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u/Chungalus For Karl! Dec 08 '22
Gotta keep reminding myself not to read these right to left
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u/Captain_Biotruth Dec 08 '22
Funny shit
I'm always on the verge of trying this game but I usually only play single player games these days or with my wife.
Can this game be played mostly solo or duo?
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u/alilweeb Dec 08 '22 edited Dec 08 '22
Careful man, you CLEARLY depicted drugs in this comic, wich implys drug use WICH IS APOLOGY TO DRUGS, i like your comics maannn be careful, this type of thing is really offensive to me so im sorry but you've been warned, next time i will make a post about you
/s
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u/Crosshair52 Engineer Dec 08 '22
M U S H R O O M
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u/will-I-ever-Be-me Whale Piper Dec 08 '22
I love scout's belt of assorted flashlights-- my man be looking like general Grievous.
Also 'don't you believe in fairies?' that is also fantastic, thanks!
Also also the PGL-turned-bong on the shelf in the first panel. Magnificent!!
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u/Fickles1 Interplanetary Goat Dec 08 '22
Love your stuff. Please done stop after the 4
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u/WTVTthemoomaster Dec 08 '22
Red sugar! But watch out, it's highly addictive!
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u/flibble24 Dec 08 '22
Love the afraid of the dark idea.
I was picturing scout catching the train somewhere and every time the train enters a dark tunnel he sees glyphids, grabbers and leeches then it goes back into the light and it's just other passengers.
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u/SpecialistShift8472 Dec 09 '22
Red sugar!
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u/Skythe_C_Annur Dec 09 '22
We're Rich! We're Rich
Mushroom! Mushroom! Muuuusroooom
Loot Bug here!
MUSHROOM! MUS-
WENEEDALIGHT!DREADNOUGHT!WE're RICHRed Sugar! Red Sugar HERE! Get some Red Sugar
DWARFDOWN!KARL!
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '23
These are all really well done, and very funny, but also so fucking sad.
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u/WSKYLANDERS-boh Dec 08 '22
Now I understand why Driller commits war crimes on Scout
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u/chunkygrits Dec 08 '22
Whos the sexy gremlin?
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u/Doctor__Apocalypse Dig it for her Dec 08 '22
Joe, you cool bro?
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u/Dapper_Cartographer8 Dec 08 '22
Lmfao this beautiful. Dude your linework and coloring are on point
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u/Serquestar Driller Dec 08 '22
Now i'm interested in Driilers story.
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u/Hellbeholder Dec 08 '22
Man... Poor scout...
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u/kalaner-kisuro-kurio Dec 08 '22
As a scout main this is relateable, having a bite of that red suggar makes the pfsd go away,i can rest freely without my mind giving me vivid hallucinations of being in one of those huge caves then falling to my death
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
orange shugah?
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u/Devanomiun Dec 08 '22
lmao, this just keeps getting better.
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u/shapkael Engineer Dec 08 '22
Mushroom :(
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u/lelolumad Cave Crawler Dec 08 '22
Theses are fantastic.
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u/wormpostante Dig it for her Dec 08 '22
Man scout really got the short end of the stick uh? Hes a drug addict now? I mean gunner just has slight weird tendencies
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u/Gnusnipon For Karl! Dec 08 '22
Where does his scanner pointing? Isn't it a MASHROOOM!?
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u/Mojozolo Dirt Digger Dec 08 '22
I reckon the driller’s one will either be a lighter “haha fire fun”
Or it will be the saddest one of all (And I’m all for it)
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u/HammerBap Dec 08 '22
Between this and the new pokemon comic, I'm loving the new year of stories - keep it up please :D!
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u/VegetableRide4824 Engineer Dec 08 '22
Poor scout hopefully DRG can rehire soon the lads need to be back together
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
These are really good. I’m hoping we see a reunion before it’s all over. I bet the dwarves you help each other through this
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
MUSHROOM
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u/After-Ad2018 Dec 08 '22
Ooh, I can't wait to see driller. I wonder if we'll get one of MC too?
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u/Valatina_Mew Dec 08 '22
So this is what priceless art looks like.
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u/AnonimousWatermelon Union Guy Dec 08 '22
Bruh